Ecclesiastes 5:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ And this too is a grievous evil – exactly as he came, so he goes. And what gain has he since he toiled for the wind?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And this also is a serious and severe evil–that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he who labors for the wind? [I Tim. 6:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ This too is a sickening tragedy: they must pass on just as they arrived. What then do they gain from working so hard for wind?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ All the days of his life he consumes: in darkness, and with many worries, and in distress as well as sadness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 5:16 Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

He who troubles his own house inherits wind, And the fool is servant to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain from all his labour in which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What does the worker gain from his toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a sickly evil I have seen under the sun: riches kept for their owner, for his evil.

Isaiah 26:18

We have conceived, we writhed in pain; we have given birth to wind. We have not accomplished deliverance in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Jeremiah 2:8

“The priests did not say, ‘Where is יהוה?’ And those who handle the Torah did not know Me, and the shepherds transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Ba‛al, and walked after matters that did not profit.

Hosea 8:7

“For they sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud, it yields no grain. If it does yield, strangers swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man if he gains all the world, and loses his own life?”

John 6:27

Do not labour for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to everlasting life, which the Son of Aḏam shall give you, for the Father, Elohim, has set His seal on Him.”

1 Corinthians 16:16

that you also be subject to such, and to everyone who works and labours with us.

1 Samuel 12:21

and do not turn aside after worthless matters which do not profit or deliver, for they are worthless.